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M. H. ROSENOW ET AL GOLF CLUB COVER Filed Dec. 8, 1948 Patented Nov. 28, 1950 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE GOLF CLUB COVER Monroe H. Rosenow and William E. Schwalbe, Milwaukee, Wis.

Application December 8, 1948, Serial No. 64,072

2 Claims. I

This invention relates to covers of the type into which the heads of golf clubs are inserted for protection from the elements and from scufiing against one another in the bag in which the clubs are carried.

It is the usual practice to make covers for the heads of golf clubs out of a relatively soft leather or other suitable fabric capable of protecting the heads of those golf clubs of a set which are made of wood. The driver and brassie are the most common clubs having wooden heads, but sometimes three or more clubs having heads made of wood are carried about in a set, and it has been the custom to provide a degree of protection for the wood heads of these clubs by the use of bag-like covers of the type referred to, fastening all of the covers together by passing a cord or the like through an eye fixed on the bottom or closed end of the covers. Hence, any cover removed from its club was suspended by the cord in a position adjacent to the remaining covers and ready for application to the head of its club when the same was returned to the bag or other receptacle employed to carry the clubs.

One of the most annoying characteristics of golf club covers of the type described is attributable to the fact that the eye connectors on their closed ends have always been fixed with relation to the cover frequently resulting in the covers becoming entangled with one another or with the cord by which they were suspended and rendering their application to the heads of clubs returned to the bag exceedingly difficult.

Still another objection to past covers of the type described, was that they frequently became displaced from the golf club heads due to the covers fitting the heads too loosely.

With these objections in mind it is the purpose of the present invention to provide a golf club cover of the character described with an eye connector at the closed end of the cover which is connected to the cover for swiveling motion to allow universal motion of the cover on the cord from which a number of said covers may be suspended.

Another object of this invention resides in the provision of an elastic strip inside the cover having its opposite ends attached to substantially opposite walls of the cover so as to tend to pull the sides of the cover inwardly toward one another beneath the head of a club over which the cover has been placed, thereby overcoming accidental displacement of the cover from the head Of the club to which it is applied.

With the above and other objects in view, which will appear as the description proceeds, this invention resides in the novel construction, combination and arrangement of parts substantially as hereinafter described and more particularly defined by the appended claims, it being understood that such changes in the precise embodiment of the hereindisclosed invention may be made as come within the scope of the claims.

The accompanying drawing illustrates two complete examples of the physical embodiment of the invention constructed according to the best modes so far devised for the practical application of the principles thereof, and in which:

Figure l is a perspective view of the cover of this invention shown in place upon the head of a golf club;

Figure 2 is a side elevational view of the cover shown in Figure 1 but having portions of the cover broken away to illustrate details of the swivel connector and the elastic band. inside the cover;

Figure 3 is a fragmentary elevational view illustrating a number of covers in place on the heads of golf clubs carried in a golf bag, the covers being joined by a cord common to all of them;

Figure 4 is a perspective view of one type of anchor piece to which the eye connector is fastened inside the cover; and

Figure 5 is a perspective view of a slightly modified type of anchor piece.

Referring now more particularly to the accompanying drawing in which like numerals indicate like parts, the numeral 5 generally designates the cover of this invention.

The cover comprises an outer bag-like element 6, preferably made of pliable leather, :and a liner 1 of soft fabric such as flannel inside the outer element and having a substantially identical shape. Both the outer element and the liner are made from relatively flat panels joined together by superimposing the pieces and sewing them together along their edges to form a common seam 8 extending entirely around the side of the cover, the seam, of course, being turned inwardly. The dimensions of the cover are such that it may be readily slipped on over the head of a golf club with the open end or neck of the bag extending a distance beneath the club head alon the shank of the club as seen best in Figure 2.

In order to prevent accidental displacement of the cover from the head of the club a strip or band of elastic 9 having its opposite end portions attached to the outer bag-like element, as

well as the liner at substantially opposite walls of the cover, is provided to draw the side of the cover inwardly toward one another beneath the head of the golf club, to render the cover more or less form fitting. For this purpose the elastic strip extends across the interior of the cover intermediate its ends and between the outer baglike element and the liner, and it is readily fixed in place by having its opposite ends received between the inturned marginal edge portions of the cover panels and stitched thereto a at IU when the seam 8 is formed.

It is common practice, as brought out hereinbefore, to provide golf club covers of this nature with eye connectors i l at their closed ends to enable a cord I? to be passed through the eyes of the covers required for one set of clubs-having wooden heads. Thus, when knotted at its opposite ends, the cord was able to suspend one or more of the covers removed from the heads of their respective clubs.

"Heretofore the-eye connectors have been fixed permanently with respect to the bottoms of the covers, but accordin to the present invention the *eyeportion l3 of the connector is formed uponthe outer exposed end of a shank or swivel l4 projecting through the bottom of the outer b'ag iike element-preferably at the seam 3, as seen bestin Figure 2, to have its inner end portion rotatably connected to an anchor piece 15 disposed between the outer bag-like element and the liner 7. The rotatable connection between the shank or swivel hi and the anchor piece is effected in an extremely simple manner, merely by passing the shank through an aperture it in the anchor piece, and forming an enlargedhead lion the-inner end-of the shank to retain the swivel connector against detachment-from the cover. The a'nchorpiece i5,-of courseyis held in place partly by being confined between the outer element of the'cover and its liner, and partly by reason' of the-fact that the eye portion of the connector cooperates with the enlarged head H on its shank to substantially loosely'rivet the -an'chor to the cover.

One form of anchor piece is shown in Figure 4 and is made in an extremely simple and inexpensive manner merely by twisting together two relatively short lengths of wire, leaving an aperture i5 intermediatethe'ends of the twisted wire for the rec'ep'tibnof theshank or swivel i i of the eye connector. Another form of anchor piece -[i is shown in- Figure 5 and comprises a subst 'antially'fiat rectangular piece of sheet metal having a central aperture it to rotatably receive r the shank i i of -the eye-connector.

When one of the covers of a set such as illustrated in Figure 3 is removed from the head of its club so that the club may be used, the cover hangs from thecord i2 and is enabled to be swiveled freely to facilitate its replacement on that this invention provides an improved golf 'club cover wherein application of the cover to the head of the golf club is facilitated by reason 'ofthe swivel connection afforded between the cover and its cord, and wherein accidental displacement ofthe cover from the head of the golf club is minimized.

What we claim as our invention is:

1. A readily removable cover for the head of a golf club, comprising: connected inner and outer bag-likeelementa'said elements havinga continuous seamalon the closed end and opposite sides" thereof; a strip of elastic extending across said cover from one side seam to the otherbetween the inner and outer elements thereof and substantially medially of the-ends of the cover; and means anchoring the opposite endsof said strip to one of said elements With the strip stretched between said'side seams so as to pull the sides-of the'cover inwardly toward one another at a distance from the open end of'the cover whereby application of the cover onto and "intentional removal thereof from-the-head of a club is facilitated without sacrificing assurance against accidental displacement of the cover from the club.

-2.--A readily removable cover for the head of a golf own-comprising: inner and outer bag-like elements, said elements being sewn together and having a continuous seam along the closed end and opposite sides'thereof an anchor piecesecured to the cover at the closed end thereof; a swivel-carried bysaid anchor piece; and an eye on the swivel and through which a cord may-be passed-to -enable the cover to besuspended by and swiveled from the cord. I

- MONROE H. ROSENGN. -WILLIAM E. SCHWALBE.

REFERENGES CITED The following references are of record in the file "of this patent:

' UNITED STATES PATENTS Numher 'Name Date 1,957,577 Chapman- May 8, 1934 2,314,589 Saad Sept. 17,- 1935 2,035,529 Bucklin; -Mar. 31, 1936 2,417,336 "Whitehead Mar. 11,1947 2,422,245 Lauretti June 17, 1947 

